George's wish that she could just "wish it into the corn field" is a reference to Jerome Bixby's short story, "It's a Good Life," in which a little boy with god-like powers whisks an entire town into an alternate reality, and holds the population in a paralysis of fear. "Wish it into the cornfield" was what his mother pleaded with Anthony to do to creatures, and people, that he had killed. The story was adapted for the original The Twilight Zone (1959), with Bill Mumy, and re-imagined for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).
After being assigned to an extremely menial job, George says, "as the day progressed, I began to suspect that Delores Herbig, as in 'her big fat ass,' was the devil and she'd condemned me to Hell." In the show Reaper (2007), Christine Willes - who plays Deloris Herbig - played a demon who collected souls of those who escaped from Hell. Additionally, both series were shot in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The show takes its title from John Howard Griffin's book "Black Like Me" in which the white author darkens his skin to pass as a black man.
In the show the dead are passing themselves off as the living.
In George's opening monologue, she quips whether the world would be better off if frogs "just stuck to hocking beer," referring to the famous Budweiser commercials of the time, which featured three large frogs croaking "Bud... weis... errrrrr."
Show cast members Callum Blue, Greg Kean and Christine Willes all each at one point guest starred on the TV series Smallville (2001) as did guest star of this episode, Jodelle Ferland.